Masked men shoot, wound Tamil family in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Saturday, 24 March 2007, 09:20 GMT]A group of masked men Friday midnight forcibly entered a house in Faizal Nagar in Kinniya division and shot at inmates injuring a husband and wife. The injured, identified as Arumugam, 40, and his wife Vijerani, 37, were admitted to the Kinniya district hospital.

Kinniya Police began inquiry into this attack Saturday morning.

Trincomalee office of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) has been informed of this incident.